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November 5, 2026November 4, 2026

Evidence for God – Part 2

2- A Fine-Tuned Universe Exists

If you want to bake a cake, you need the right ingredients in the right amounts, mixed correctly, and baked at the right temperature for the exact length of time. A universe is far more complex than a cake. Therefore, building a universe would require far greater precision, with many more ingredients in the right amounts, assembled in the right sequence, over the exact amount of time. Every factor must be precisely fine-tuned.

Scientists recognize that the universe requires fine-tuning for complex life to exist. The number of factors that must be fine-tuned is vast, but five essential ones are these:

Gravitational Force Constant – This force holds us on the ground instead of flying off into space. More than that, it holds the planet together and makes it round. It also holds the Moon in orbit around the Earth and the planets in orbit around the Sun. It holds together the Milky Way and all other galaxies. This force must be strong enough to form stars and planets, but if it were too strong, stars would burn out quickly, and no planets would form.

Electromagnetic Force Constant – This force holds atoms together. It must be just right for chemical bonds to form, creating molecules that make up everything, including our bodies.

Strong Nuclear Force Constant – This force holds together the protons and neutrons in the nuclei of atoms. It must be just right to form stable atoms.

Weak Nuclear Force Constant – This force regulates radioactive decay and must be precisely correct to form stars such as our Sun.

Cosmological Constant – This force controls the universe’s expansion speed, balancing gravity’s attractive pull with the repulsive force driving space to expand. It must be extremely precise to prevent the universe from flying apart or collapsing on itself.

A properly “baked” universe requires that all of these constants and many more parameters be just right. The chance of all of them coming together by accident is beyond impossible. Fine-tuning the universe requires intelligent planning, and it could not have happened by accident. Realizing that and not wanting to consider a Designer, scientists have devised a hypothesis to explain the universe’s fine-tuning. It is the theory of multiple universes, or the multiverse theory. It suggests there must be an almost infinite number of universes with different parameters, and we just happen to live in the one that got everything right. This idea has many problems, but we can’t even call it science because it lacks evidence and can’t be tested.

On the other hand, plenty of evidence suggests that God created the universe. Romans 1:20: “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

Meet us at the International Conference on Missions at America’s Center in St. Louis, November 12-14, 2026, booth 1223 in the Exhibit Hall.

November 4, 2026November 4, 2026

Evidence for God – Part 1

1-Matter, Energy, Space, and Time Exist

If someone tells you God doesn’t exist, ask: if there is no God, why is there anything at all? After many years, even centuries, of insisting that the universe is eternal and had no beginning, scientists finally surrendered to the strong evidence that the universe had a beginning. There was once no time, space, or matter/energy. Nothing existed.

The beginning is commonly known as the Big Bang, but a better name is the Cosmic Creation Event. If nothing existed before, how did the universe come into existence? Whatever explanation you suggest, it must be outside of space and time and immaterial. Those things could not have created themselves.

That leads to the question: “If nothing existed before the Cosmic Creation Event or Big Bang, why does anything exist now?” Whatever caused the beginning would have to be outside of time and space and immaterial—something unseen. What could that be? “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Hebrews 11:3). The God described in the Bible perfectly matches the requirements for the ultimate cause.

Many of today’s scientists insist that nothing exists beyond the natural things they can measure. Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.” Since the supernatural is beyond science’s limited boundaries, science can never answer these two questions: 1-“Why does the universe exist?” 2-“How did something come from nothing?”

The first question leads us to the second. If nothing existed before everything came into existence, “How can everything come from nothing?” If nothing existed before, how can something come from nothing with no cause? Since that does not make sense, scientists look for ways to redefine “nothing” to mean something other than absolutely nothing. But how can it be nothing if it is something, and what was the something? We suggest the answer is in Genesis 1:1.

— Roland Earnst © 2026

Meet us at the International Conference on Missions at America’s Center in St. Louis, November 12-14, 2026, booth 1223 in the Exhibit Hall.

November 3, 2026November 2, 2026

International Conference on Missions

Next week, the International Conference on Missions (ICOM) will convene in St. Louis, Missouri. This major gathering brings together churches connected with the Restoration Movement, along with missions, educational institutions, and support organizations from around the world. It will be a time to share, be inspired by outstanding speakers, and learn what is happening in evangelism today. Does God Exist? will be represented at ICOM.

In past years, the Christian Churches held the North American Christian Convention (1927-2018), and the Churches of Christ held the Tulsa Soul Winning Workshop (1977-2017). Since both of those gatherings have been discontinued, ICOM (which began in 1948) has helped fill the void, growing into a major gathering of like-minded Christians. We will be there to share the evidence for God’s existence with fellow believers, focusing on the areas listed in the picture above. It is essential for Christians to know why we believe what we believe.

If you are in the St. Louis area, we invite you to register for ICOM and stop by our booth (number 1223) in the exhibit hall. Even if you have to come from a distance, we are sure you will be inspired by the speakers and learn from the workshops and Bible study as you learn more about missions reaching the lost around the world.

The International Conference on Missions will be November 12-14, 2026, at the America’s Center in downtown St. Louis. You can learn more and register at theicom.org. Be sure to stop by our booth. We would love to see you there.

November 2, 2026November 1, 2026

AI Can Be Used for Good or Evil

Some people say that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an evil plot for robots to wipe out human existence. By preying on humanity’s ignorance, promoters of this idea hope to influence elections or enrich themselves at others’ expense. Like all human inventions, AI can be used for good or evil.

The word “intelligence” means “to have the capacity to learn.” “Artificial” means manufactured–an imitation. AI gives computers the capacity to learn, but humans provide the information and set the limits. AI is not evil and cannot, on its own, do anything its creators don’t tell it to do.

Can AI be used in a destructive way? Of course it can–like anything else humans invent. Can a truck designed to bring food or medicine to people in need also be used destructively? I recently saw a picture of a truck being used in Africa as a base for weapons, allowing soldiers to kill innocent people in a remote village. Are trucks evil? Of course not, but they can be used destructively. AI can be used for good or evil, depending on the humans who use it.

The Motivator, a journal of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, lists five ways AI is being used to battle that debilitating illness. They include: (1) Identify people with MS years before any symptoms appear. (2) Improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosis. (3) Predict the course of each person’s MS and how individuals will respond to therapies. (4) Enhance the ability of people with MS to move and communicate. (5) Speed the development of new therapies.

AI can be used not only in the medical field to save lives but also in archaeological work. AI can verify archaeological findings to support the integrity of scripture and provide evidence for the validity of scriptural references. AI is not an evil invention to take over the world. God has given humans the ability to create tools that can help or hurt. Like other tools, AI can be used for good or evil. The evil is not in the tools but in the people who use them for evil purposes.

Reference: The Motivator summer/fall issue, page 4.

October 30, 2026October 29, 2026

Flamingo Dance

Flamingos dance while they eat. That caught the attention of Victor Ortega Jimenez, an animal biomechanics and bio-inspired design scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. He noticed ripples spreading across the water around the birds as they ate and wondered why. He discovered the flamingo dance.

Research revealed that the flamingos were doing a stomping dance. The birds bob their beaks in the water, an action resembling a sewing machine needle bobbing up and down 12 times a second. This creates a vortex in the water, trapping and scooping up algae and tiny crustaceans. While they bob their beaks to create a vortex, stomping amplifies it, allowing their beaks to scoop up algae. Inside their beaks, their tongues help them filter out the food while releasing the mud and silt.

According to Jimenez, this process, including the flamingo dance, lets flamingos filter out particles as small as a single cell. He says that by emulating flamingos’ filtering process, humans could remove microplastics and other chemicals from water. It could even lead to better designs for water-desalination systems. This is another example of biomimicry, where humans can apply principles learned from animals to accomplish important tasks.

God’s design of living creatures teaches us many things. Victor Jimenez said this about his work in animal biomechanics: “Nature is always full of secrets, and I think that’s the riddle that keeps me going, trying to understand nature. That’s my way to see science: by observation and trying to be inspired and trying to solve a problem.”

Reference: sciencenews.org HERE and HERE

October 28, 2026October 27, 2026

Neurogenesis and a Healthy Brain

The human brain is a remarkable organ, capable of many things at once. While it automatically controls all of your body’s functions, it also lets you read and process this article. Our brains can be damaged by strokes, malignancies, accidents, Alzheimer’s, and many other factors. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have neurogenesis, where our brains could generate new neurons to replace damaged ones?

Many scientists have debated whether adult brains can generate new neurons. Neurons develop in the womb and, to a certain extent, during childhood and adolescence. But many thought that, after maturity, we didn’t develop new neurons, even though adult brains do form new connections between neurons and remove those that are no longer necessary.

For seven years, molecular biologist Ionut Dumitru at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has been looking for evidence of neurogenesis in adult brains. Recent research by Dumitru’s team provides strong evidence that it does occur in the adult brain’s hippocampus, a region essential to learning and memory. Earlier research showed neurogenesis in the brains of laboratory rats, but it is unethical to experiment on the brain of a living person. Dumitru and his colleagues analyzed brain cells from the hippocampi of people who had died at various ages of life. Their analysis showed that active neurogenesis occurs in the adult hippocampus. Scientists knew that hippocampal neurons could reorganize and form new connections, helping us take in new information. But this research indicates that the hippocampus may also generate new neurons.

What is the key to keeping a healthy brain? Our brains can benefit from enriching activities like socializing, being involved in a church, and learning new skills. Thinking can be tiring, and it’s hard to make the effort when artificial intelligence (AI) can automate many tasks that require deep thought. Mental challenges like reading, writing, solving puzzles, playing chess, and practicing active listening can benefit your brain health.

Physical exercise also boosts brain health and perhaps neurogenesis. Physical exercise and mental exercise through critical thinking can help keep you sharp. Even when it is easier to avoid exercise, decision-making, or reflecting on the important questions in life, do it anyway. Your body and your brain will benefit, and so can your faith. Consider the evidence for God’s existence. Study the Bible, meditate on it, and apply it to your life. It may be difficult, but it can improve your mental outlook and psychological perspective. Knowing the evidence for God’s existence and the Bible’s reliability can help you to “always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). We pray that our posts and printed materials will help you do that.

References: newscientist.com and insideh o ok.com

October 27, 2026October 26, 2026

God’s Intelligence and Design in Apple Trees

The plant world demonstrates God’s intelligence and design. Plants provide food for all animal life on Earth, including insects and microbes. The nutrients found in plants vary from one species or variety to another, as do the needs of the animals, insects, and microbes that feed on them. Many plant-animal relationships are symbiotic, with each depending on the other for food, pollination, or seed dispersal.

For humans, plant variations provide dietary necessities and enjoyment. Most of us know that apples come in different varieties. We know that a Jonathan and a Fuji differ in appearance and taste, but they may also differ in nutritional value. Scientific American reported that there are about 2,500 apple varieties in the United States, but only about 100 are grown commercially, and just 15 are the most popular.

Here in the Midwest, different varieties meet the needs of various animals. Deer eat some apple varieties and shun others. The nutrients in these varieties vary, and deer are programmed to eat those that benefit them. As Americans’ diets have changed, so have the kinds of apples we eat. The chemicals in our foods affect what we like.

Humans have worked with apple trees over centuries to develop apples with the desired characteristics of taste, appearance, and disease resistance. This incredibly complex system is a great example of God’s design. We can call the development of new cultivars microevolution, but they are still apples. Enjoy the varieties you prefer, knowing they are not the way they are by accident. They express God’s intelligence and design in the genetics of apple trees.

October 26, 2026October 25, 2026

Questions Science Will Never Be Able to Answer

Scientific American magazine addressed an old argument between science and faith. The article asks whether there are questions science will never be able to answer. This will irritate atheists and skeptics who claim that religion was invented by humans to explain what they didn’t understand. That claim has been true in some past cases. When people didn’t understand volcanoes, they invented Pele or Vulcan to explain them. People invented Neptune to explain things in the ocean. Minerva explained rain, and Thor explained lightning.

When science could explain these things, people ridiculed the gods of the past, though in some cases people abandoned belief in them slowly. While I was in Hawaii, I picked up volcanic rocks to bring home. A local man chastised me for it and warned that taking the rocks would bring me bad luck and misfortune. He showed me a letter and a rock from a lady in Ohio who had taken a rock home and had disastrous fortune until she sent it back. I have brought back a dozen rocks from Hawaii over several visits to the islands, and my life has been blessed with good health and happiness.

Are there questions science will never be able to answer? Sarah Scoles, writing in that Scientific American article, addresses some possible ones. They include: “What came before the Big Bang? What causes consciousness? Why are we here? What happens when we die? How did life begin?” It is important to understand that scientists have opinions about these questions, but they are faith statements, not science. In our quarterly publication, we have a column called “Scientists and God” that quotes prominent scientists who have expressed their belief in God. We have literally hundreds of testimonies to choose from.

Romans 1:20 says that we can know there is a God by the things He has made, and 1 Peter 3:15 tells Christians to “be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope you have.” Our “Dandy Designs” columns, plus our booklets and Facebook page, provide strong evidence that intelligence is the cause of what we see.

References: “Impossible Questions” in the October 2026 issue of Scientific American, pages 28-37, and our Facebook page. You can see current and back issues of our printed publication on doesgodexist.org.

October 23, 2026October 22, 2026

Molecules Exist as Mirror Images

Whether you are right-handed or left-handed, your body uses left-handed amino acids to build proteins and right-handed sugars in DNA. What does that mean? This molecular “handedness,” known as chirality, means molecules exist as mirror images—left- and right-handed versions of the same molecule. Practically all of life’s amino acids are left-handed, and its sugars are right-handed. Why? Scientists don’t know. No natural process explains this bias because in nature the mixture is generally 50:50.

This chirality matters for drugs. One chiral form may treat disease while the other may be inert or even toxic. Historically, drugmakers produced racemic (50:50) mixtures, sometimes causing unwanted side effects. Thalidomide is an example, with one handedness (enantiomer) causing birth defects. However, even if this drug is homochiral (single-handed), it can become racemic in the body.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Henri Kagan (Paris-Sud University) and Kenso Soai (Tokyo University of Science) for developing “asymmetric catalysis,” enabling the selective synthesis of homochiral (single-handed) molecules. Kagan pioneered chiral catalysis in the 1960s, and Soai refined it in 2003. Their work enabled the pharmaceutical industry to produce homochiral drugs. For example, Eli Lilly produced a left-handed cough suppressant, Novrad, and a right-handed version called Darvon, an opioid painkiller. The molecules (and their names) are mirror images of each other.

The work of Kagan and Soai solved “how” to make single-handed drugs—not “why” life itself is homochiral. That remains unexplained. In nature, molecules exist as mirror images in roughly equal numbers. That means the formation of life from non-living matter (abiogenesis) faces a paradox. Random chemistry yields equal left- and right-handed forms, yet life requires near-perfect homochirality to fold functional proteins and replicate DNA. No known natural mechanism can do that. Is it reasonable to suggest that an external influence, an intelligent agent, was involved? We think this is another indicator that life is not an accident but God’s creation.

Reference: smithsonianmag.com

October 22, 2026October 21, 2026

Bird Migration System

Yesterday we looked at bird migration, particularly why birds migrate, and noted several reasons. The facts indicate a bird migration system that defies a chance explanation.

According to the All About Birds website, “On a single autumn night with favorable winds, there can be more than one billion birds in the air over the United States alone.” That is more birds than people in the U.S. There are more than 300 species of birds in North America that migrate long distances, which has a major effect on life on this planet.

To prepare for a long-distance flight, a bird must bulk up. The bird must be in top physical condition for flying, with energy stored for a grueling flight with infrequent or no stops. The timing also must be right. That means the bird must assess the weather and know when it’s right. Many other factors are involved in the bird migration system.

An interesting fact about bird migration is that they can travel thousands of miles, often along the same route, and arrive in the same place year after year. Even young birds migrate on their own just a couple of months after they hatch. So how can they find their winter home even though they’ve never been there before? Birds use many navigation methods, including the magnetic field, the sun, the moon, and stars. They also use familiar landmarks like ridges, rivers, and other features. They even use their sense of smell. With all that in mind, they must avoid predators and handle storms, strong winds, and sometimes human-made threats such as artificial light, communication towers, wind turbines, and tall buildings.

To learn more about what’s happening in bird migration today, check out the BirdCast website. There, you can see how many birds are moving across the lower forty-eight United States. The more we examine it, the more we see that the bird migration system defies a chance explanation. It’s another evidence of God’s design.

— Roland Earnst

Reference: allaboutbirds.org